Daughter of Andrew Henshaw and Elizabeth Isbell. Niece of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
Married June 26, 1846, to Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey as his first wife. She died after giving birth, on Dec. 18, 1856, to Andrew Henshaw Torrey who weighed 18 pounds. He was given the same name as her firstborn child, named for her father but who had died two years earlier at the age of six.
The Henshaws, Isbells and Torreys were among the early settlers of Alabama, pre-Statehood. In 1817 Andrew Henshaw and other inhabitants along the Mobile River signed a petition to the U.S. Congress asking that annexation by the State of Mississippi of a western portion of Alabama Territory be rejected. His descendants are therefore designated First Families of Alabama by the Alabama Genealogical Society.
After Elizabeth's death, her mother and brother Andrew Isbell Henshaw came to Claiborne from Clarke County and lived with Judge Torrey and the Torrey children.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw had first married his and Elizabeth's first cousin, Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw, who afterwards became Judge Torrey's second wife.
Elizabeth's daughter Daisy Pillans referred to her mother's art in her memoirs, "I have two of my mother's paintings. One is a large landscape painted at the age of fourteen. The other is a ruined abbey with stained window." The painting of the abbey hung on the parlor wall in Daisy's home at 908 Government Street.
Married June 26, 1846, to Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey as his first wife. She died after giving birth, on Dec. 18, 1856, to Andrew Henshaw Torrey who weighed 18 pounds. He was given the same name as her firstborn child, named for her father but who had died two years earlier at the age of six.
The Henshaws, Isbells and Torreys were among the early settlers of Alabama, pre-Statehood. In 1817 Andrew Henshaw and other inhabitants along the Mobile River signed a petition to the U.S. Congress asking that annexation by the State of Mississippi of a western portion of Alabama Territory be rejected. His descendants are therefore designated First Families of Alabama by the Alabama Genealogical Society.
After Elizabeth's death, her mother and brother Andrew Isbell Henshaw came to Claiborne from Clarke County and lived with Judge Torrey and the Torrey children.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw had first married his and Elizabeth's first cousin, Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw, who afterwards became Judge Torrey's second wife.
Elizabeth's daughter Daisy Pillans referred to her mother's art in her memoirs, "I have two of my mother's paintings. One is a large landscape painted at the age of fourteen. The other is a ruined abbey with stained window." The painting of the abbey hung on the parlor wall in Daisy's home at 908 Government Street.
Daughter of Andrew Henshaw and Elizabeth Isbell. Niece of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
Married June 26, 1846, to Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey as his first wife. She died after giving birth, on Dec. 18, 1856, to Andrew Henshaw Torrey who weighed 18 pounds. He was given the same name as her firstborn child, named for her father but who had died two years earlier at the age of six.
The Henshaws, Isbells and Torreys were among the early settlers of Alabama, pre-Statehood. In 1817 Andrew Henshaw and other inhabitants along the Mobile River signed a petition to the U.S. Congress asking that annexation by the State of Mississippi of a western portion of Alabama Territory be rejected. His descendants are therefore designated First Families of Alabama by the Alabama Genealogical Society.
After Elizabeth's death, her mother and brother Andrew Isbell Henshaw came to Claiborne from Clarke County and lived with Judge Torrey and the Torrey children.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw had first married his and Elizabeth's first cousin, Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw, who afterwards became Judge Torrey's second wife.
Elizabeth's daughter Daisy Pillans referred to her mother's art in her memoirs, "I have two of my mother's paintings. One is a large landscape painted at the age of fourteen. The other is a ruined abbey with stained window." The painting of the abbey hung on the parlor wall in Daisy's home at 908 Government Street.
Married June 26, 1846, to Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey as his first wife. She died after giving birth, on Dec. 18, 1856, to Andrew Henshaw Torrey who weighed 18 pounds. He was given the same name as her firstborn child, named for her father but who had died two years earlier at the age of six.
The Henshaws, Isbells and Torreys were among the early settlers of Alabama, pre-Statehood. In 1817 Andrew Henshaw and other inhabitants along the Mobile River signed a petition to the U.S. Congress asking that annexation by the State of Mississippi of a western portion of Alabama Territory be rejected. His descendants are therefore designated First Families of Alabama by the Alabama Genealogical Society.
After Elizabeth's death, her mother and brother Andrew Isbell Henshaw came to Claiborne from Clarke County and lived with Judge Torrey and the Torrey children.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw had first married his and Elizabeth's first cousin, Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw, who afterwards became Judge Torrey's second wife.
Elizabeth's daughter Daisy Pillans referred to her mother's art in her memoirs, "I have two of my mother's paintings. One is a large landscape painted at the age of fourteen. The other is a ruined abbey with stained window." The painting of the abbey hung on the parlor wall in Daisy's home at 908 Government Street.
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